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Rebecca Klar is labor reporter at Bloomberg Law covering the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and workplace discrimination issues. She has over eight years of experience covering federal, state, and local politics, as well as legal affairs and the tech industry. 

Before heading to D.C. to join The Hill's breaking news team, she was the city reporter for The York Dispatch, a daily paper in York, Pennsylvania, where she covered city government and economic development, and a reporter for Blank Slate Media, where she covered politics, crime and education in her hometown of Nassau County. 

Rebecca graduated from Binghamton University, State University of New York in May 2017. She graduated Magna Cum Laude, with a bachelor's degree in English with a concentration in rhetoric.

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EEOC’s Abortion Rulemaking Power Diminished After Court Loss

A Louisiana federal judge’s decision to vacate parts of EEOC pregnancy accommodation rules illustrates a narrowed view of agencies’ abilities to regulate on abortion after the US Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to access it. Judge David C. Joseph of the US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana found the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lacked authority to include abortion since it was not explicitly in the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act passed by Congress. Josep...

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Trump’s Scrutiny Spurs Employers to Consider Social Class in DEI

Businesses mulling diversity policy changes to avoid Trump administration enforcement have a new option: focus on socioeconomic background in place of, or in addition to, race and gender. Some legal scholars and consultants suggest companies stop focusing solely on protected traits under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and add programs for workers from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.But they acknowledge including economic class distinctions in diversity, equity, and inclusion prog...

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Anti-TikTok pressure is bipartisan and mounting in Congress

Anti-TikTok pressure is mounting in Congress from both sides of the aisle, with lawmakers proposing legal measures to ban the popular video sharing app from use in the U.S. to requests for dominant app stores to drop it. The push is largely based on concerns that the app, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, poses national security and privacy risks based on the data TikTok is able to collect on users’ activity on their devices both on and off the app. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Rep. Ken Buck (

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Pelosi attack highlights risks of online violence against women in politics

Last week’s attack targeting Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at her home is highlighting the real-world risk of violence stemming from the online vitriol targeting women in politics. The online abuse of women running for office, especially those of color, is more likely to be gendered, personal and invoke sexual violence than their male peers, research shows. Although misogynistic attacks are not new to politics, experts say the rise of social media and its secretive algorithms are increasing

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How billionaires are building a right-wing online ecosystem

The rapper Ye’s purchase of the right-wing social media app Parler may do little to reignite the floundering platform. But taken as a piece in a larger puzzle of billionaires buying, creating and investing in social media apps, the acquisition could further consolidate the power of ultra-wealthy men to shape the online ecosystem based on their own ideological views. Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, is part of a new wave of high-profile billionaires — also including the likes of Elon Musk, Pete

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How bad actors are using tech platforms to sexually exploit, traffic Ukrainian women

Bad actors are leveraging social media groups and communications apps to sexually exploit and traffic Ukrainians seeking shelter and information, amplifying concerns about those dangers in an already high-risk region. As the war continues and millions of Ukrainians, especially women and children, transition to border nations, potential traffickers are using the same digital spaces where refugees are looking for assistance to spread misinformation or pose as well-meaning volunteers to house thos

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